Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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