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Reading brings us unknown friends

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

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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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True love rules especially through memory.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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