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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Honore de Balzac

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
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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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Finding Forgiveness Heart Mom Yourself
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing

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