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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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