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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.



Modesty is the conscience of the body.



Necessity is often the spur to genius.



Love is the poetry of the senses.



Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.



Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.



No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.



Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.



Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.



It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.



The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.



The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.



The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.



Modesty is the conscience of the body.



Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.








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