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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.

Honore de Balzac

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Angry Character Measurement
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
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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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People

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