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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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There are words which cut like steel.

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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

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

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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