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

Honore de Balzac

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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