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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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Economized love is never real love.

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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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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For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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