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We are always on the side of those who speak last.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
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. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.
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... we ought to be astonished at nothing for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?
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Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.
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. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
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In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
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If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?
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if I inflict wounds, I heal them.
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The heart never becomes wrinkled.
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. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .
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It is freezing fit to split a stone.
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It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.
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matrimony is a very dangerous disorder I had rather drink.
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I pity those who have no taste for reading.
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good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
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There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.
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The human heart will never wrinkle
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The world has no long injustices.
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winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.
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I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.
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