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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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Resignation is a daily suicide.

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With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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

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When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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