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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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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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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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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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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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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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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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

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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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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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