Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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