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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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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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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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