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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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