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

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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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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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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