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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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