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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Honore de Balzac

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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