Emile Souvestre Quotes
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He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
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If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the reception of it is the rarest of virtues.
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Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
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Women speak in the superlative.
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The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
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One of the infirmities of our nature is always to mistake feeling for evidence, and to judge of the season by a cloud or a ray of sunshine.
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Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.
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Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.