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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.

Honore de Balzac

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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