Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
