Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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