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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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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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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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