A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTPatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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