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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Honore de Balzac

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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