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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Honore de Balzac

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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
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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
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
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman

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