"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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"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.“
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"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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"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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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
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