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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
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
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Event History Lying Official Reality Reason Secret
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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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
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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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue

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