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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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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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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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