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" A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. "
Honore de Balzac
Force
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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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" Love is the poetry of the senses. "
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" Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. "
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" At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. "
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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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" Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. "
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" The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. "
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He
Silent
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" A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. "
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" No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. "
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" Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. "
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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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" Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. "
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Weeds
Thrive
" An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. "
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Drains
Color
" Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. "
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Human Nature
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" Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. "
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" Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. "
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" Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. "
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Nothing
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" Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. "
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Power
Action
" When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. "
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Vice
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Finding
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Legal
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