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They say women and music should never be dated.

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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

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Tenderness is a virtue.

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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

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The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

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This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

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Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

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There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

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Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.

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