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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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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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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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