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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Honore de Balzac

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
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
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
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
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
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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