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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

Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
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
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
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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
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
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 man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
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
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself

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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