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Whoever does not visit Paris r...

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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Kindness is not without its ro...

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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The union of a want and a sent...

The union of a want and a sentiment.

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There are no little events wit...

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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A husband and wife who have se...

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

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Who is to decide which is the ...

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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It is always assumed by the em...

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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He hesitated till the last mom...

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, 'I shall win!'--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Ah! What pleasure it must be t...

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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We flew back home like swallow...

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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What moralists describe as the...

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, EugГЁne de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the who

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A letter is a soul, so faithfu...

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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And he, like many jaded people...

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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However gross a man may be, th...

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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How did you get back?' asked V...

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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Women are always true, even in...

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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You're a fine fastidious young...

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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Good befalls us while we sleep...

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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All we are is in the soul....

All we are is in the soul.

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Love which economizes is never...

Love which economizes is never true love.

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