Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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