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

Honore de Balzac

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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
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
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
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
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
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

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