At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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