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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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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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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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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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