"Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her."
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"Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently."
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"Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance."
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"There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy."
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"The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm."
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"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."
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"A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice."
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"Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God."
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"The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth."
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"I am a galley slave to pen and ink."
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"Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word."
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"A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders."
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"Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief."
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"Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling."
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"To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier."
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"For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience."
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"Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch."
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"Sensuality is the death of the soul."
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"Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad."
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"To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold."
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