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

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Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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

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The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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