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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Honore de Balzac

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
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
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
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
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
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
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
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win 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
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
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

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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