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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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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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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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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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

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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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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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Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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