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" Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. "
Honore de Balzac
Study
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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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" A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. "
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" In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. "
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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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" Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. "
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" One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. "
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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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" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "
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" It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. "
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" Finance, like time, devours its own children. "
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" Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. "
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Everything
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" What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? "
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" For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. "
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" Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. "
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Nothing
Opposite
Way
" Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. "
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Exercise
Great
" Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. "
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Someone
Need
" 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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Woman
Wife
" The more one judges, the less one loves. "
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Love
Judges
" Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. "
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Die
Ecstasy
Men
" Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. "
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Like
Pursue
" Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! "
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Liberty
Peace
Political
" At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. "
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Woman
Beauty
Coming
" Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. "
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Pass
Legal
Big
" I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. "
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Race
Human
Broker
" The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. "
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Man
Friends
Business
" It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. "
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Her
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" The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. "
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Paris
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Ape
" When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. "
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Great
People
" Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. "
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" Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. "
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Women
Without