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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

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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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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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Necessity is the spur of genius.

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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

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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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