The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTPatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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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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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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