I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove 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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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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You must render: never report.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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