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.
HONORE DE BALZACLove, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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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.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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We love because we love.
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