Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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