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To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

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

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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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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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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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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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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

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