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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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Love which economizes is never true love.

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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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