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People exaggerate both happin...

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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The boor covers himself, the ...

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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Marriage must fight constantl...

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Kindness is not without its r...

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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A letter is a soul, so faithf...

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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Coffee falls into the stomach...

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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In love, what a woman mistake...

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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The mind, too, has its regime...

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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There are no little events wi...

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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The sanctity of womanhood is ...

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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The great secret of social al...

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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The habits of life form the s...

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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Beauty is the greatest of hum...

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Whoever does not visit Paris ...

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

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This coffee falls into your s...

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

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Men are such dupes by choice,...

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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Behind every fortune there is...

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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Girls are apt to imagine nobl...

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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Any man, however blase or dep...

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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When we drink coffee, ideas m...

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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