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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Honore de Balzac

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
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
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Heart Money Treasure Yourself
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
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
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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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
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
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
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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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher

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