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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Honore de Balzac

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
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
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
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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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
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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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself

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