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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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Economized love is never real love.

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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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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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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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