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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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Love which economizes is never true love.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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

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