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Honore de
book law rose
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.
skirts naked nudity
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
book thinking skeletons
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.
book men paris
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
cat blood maids
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.
heart inferiority rivals
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
daughter children ambition
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
heart charity virtue
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.
feelings natural natural-feelings
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.
marriage mean passion
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
fame wells desirable
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.
eye starlight virgins
Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.
compassion littles criminals
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
impossible virtue
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.