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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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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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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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