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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Honore de Balzac

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
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
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
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
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Heart Money Treasure Yourself

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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