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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.
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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.
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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
Honore de Balzac