"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.“
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."
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"One must not hope to be more than one can be."
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent."
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"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history."
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