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" Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! "
Honore de Balzac
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" Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. "
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" Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. "
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" Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. "
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" To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. "
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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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