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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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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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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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