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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore de Balzac

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
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
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
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position 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
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
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman

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