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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
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
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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