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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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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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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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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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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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