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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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

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A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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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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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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