Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
HONORE DE BALZACArt’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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