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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Honore de Balzac

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
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
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
It 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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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
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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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
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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Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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