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Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years one does not know how to be rich, or to be loved.

— Delphine de Girardin Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)

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The minds whose mission is to destroy prejudices are precisely those who have the most prejudices and profess them most blindly.

When you want to drain the marsh, you don't consult the frogs.

To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, to be the idol of your idol! ... It is too much, it exceeds human happiness, it is stealing fire from heaven!

La Croix de Berny (1855)

Business is other people's money.

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