Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.Honore de Balzac
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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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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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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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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