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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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