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.
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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Love, 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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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