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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.

Honore de Balzac

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
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
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
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 may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
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
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue

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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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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