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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Honore de Balzac

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
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
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
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
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
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
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
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
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
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
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

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