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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
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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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
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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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
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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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
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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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art Humanity Passion Religion Romance Universal Wasted
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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