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Love knows nothing of modesty.

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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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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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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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