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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Honore de Balzac

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
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
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
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
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
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
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
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
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Angry Character Measurement

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