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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Honore de Balzac

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
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
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
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
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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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
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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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman

Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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