In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those strange, half-naked beings one glimpses through cellar windows, whose wild-seeming cries floating out of those depths always makes a painful impression. In the morning, one sees these pale men, still white with flour, carrying a loaf under one arm, going off to rest and gather new strength to renew their hard and useful labor when night comes again. I have always highly esteemed the brave and humble workers who labor all night to produce those soft but crusty loaves that look more like cake than bread.
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...love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
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The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit
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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
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Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
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It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.
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Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
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Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it
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Nothing succeeds like success.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
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A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
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At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid behavior on the part of the governments is that business profitability is improving, and that's all connected to the euro going down.
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