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The forests have taught man liberty.

— Paul Bourget Cosmopolis (1892)

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There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

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At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

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The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man.

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"There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas," said Dorsenne to himself, when the Marquis had left him. "He is like the Socialists. What vigor of mind in that old wornout machine!"

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There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

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