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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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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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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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

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

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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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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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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