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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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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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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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

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

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In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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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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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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