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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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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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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

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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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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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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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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

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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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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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