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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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

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Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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