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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

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