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Honore de
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
exist ideas moral seen society upright
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only
defects
They must have the defects of their qualities.
bed innocence proven single sleep slept songwriter sound
He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence
loaf science
To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
temptation cures
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
jewels literature pearls
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
humility body modesty
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
dream book writing
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
wedding flower wife
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
funny-love first-love love-is
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
laughter joining-in joining
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.