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What moralist can deny that w...

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

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The passion of love is essent...

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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Reproach is usually honest, w...

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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In the silence of their studi...

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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Pure herring oil is the port ...

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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But does not happiness come f...

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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A man's own vanity is a swind...

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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Glory is the sunshine of the ...

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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One of the glories of society...

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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It is not hope but despair th...

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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A sick man, surrounded by tho...

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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Innocence alone dares commit ...

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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It is always assumed by the e...

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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Virtually all men of action i...

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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When she lives at his palace,...

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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A married woman is a slave yo...

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

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Woman is stronger by virtue o...

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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Love may be the fairest gem w...

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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Marriage is an institution ne...

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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The duration of a couple's pa...

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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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....