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demand firsts should
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
eye tongue mockery
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
light diets
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
humility body modesty
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
heart opportunity winning
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
running husband thinking
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
equality power literature
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
lonely loneliness being-alone
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
looks sometimes moments
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
paris doe good-french
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
race literature finance
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
writing color political
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
gratitude heart men
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.