Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.Honoré de Balzac
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
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