The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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