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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.

Honore de Balzac

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
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
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
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
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
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
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
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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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
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
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
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

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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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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