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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

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