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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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