All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

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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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