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Un mari, comme un gouvernemen...

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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Thinking is seeing.... Every ...

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Creole women take after Europ...

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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A Creole woman is like a chil...

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

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Your modest savant smiles as ...

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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Constancy will always be the ...

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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In all lands, sailors form a ...

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

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Ah! how much a mother learns ...

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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Most women wish to feel that ...

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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For businessmen, the world is...

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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Discouragement is of all ages...

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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Thought is the only treasure ...

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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Remorse is impotent; it will ...

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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The fashions we call English ...

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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Among fifty percent of your m...

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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Incurable wounds are those in...

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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Science is the language of th...

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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How did you get back?' asked ...

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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In family life people almost ...

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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You're a fine fastidious youn...

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....