The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
From Honore de Balzac
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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