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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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There are words which cut like steel.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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

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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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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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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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