At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACOur worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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