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How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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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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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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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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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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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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A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

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