Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIt is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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You must render: never report.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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