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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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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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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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We love because we love.

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Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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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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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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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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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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