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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Honore de Balzac

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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