Emile Gaboriau Quotes
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It is of no use to mourn over the past. All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future;
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Man calculates, while woman follows the inspirations of her heart.
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Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.
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It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.
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Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.
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A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.
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You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.
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As a general thing, a first fault draws many others in its train. As an impalpable flake is the beginning of an avalanche, so an imprudence is often the prelude to a great crime.
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There are some inordinate desires before which the firmest principles must give way, and which so pervert our moral sense as to render us incapable of judging between right and wrong.
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There are some people who must be saved without warning, and against their will.
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He began at once to write out one of these terrible decisions of “Not proven,” which restores liberty, but not honor, to the accused man; which says that he is not guilty, but does not say he is innocent.
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Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
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He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.
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Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor...
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In romance we meet with heroines of lifelong constancy: real life produces no such miracles.
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Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
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In a swollen river the current is unequal, being much stronger in some places than in others; hence the great danger.
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Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.
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When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.
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Fools sit down and wait for an opportunity; sensible men make one.
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...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.
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A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.
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Gambling generally leads to stealing.
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...a statement from you is more convincing than all the proofs in the world.