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• The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
• The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model…
• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
• Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
• Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
• How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
• If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
• It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see…
• All for one, one for all, that is our device.
• Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
• It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a…
• There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He…

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