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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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We love because we love.

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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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