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A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion.

— Émile de Girardin A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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There is more poverty in the human heart than misery in life.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

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