"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
-Honore de Balzac
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"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.“
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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
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