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" Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. "
Nicolas Chamfort
Tax
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" There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. "
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" All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. "
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" There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. "
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" The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. "
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" The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. "
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" There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. "
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" Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. "
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" Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. "
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" Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. "
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" It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. "
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" Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. "
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" When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. "
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" Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. "
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" If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. "
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" Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. "
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" There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. "
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" One must not hope to be more than one can be. "
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" Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. "
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" The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. "
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" Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. "
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