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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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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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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

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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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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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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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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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