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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself. - [Women] A court is an assemblage of noble and distinguished beggars. - [Court] Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. - [Grace] He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself. - [Friendship] It is not an event, it is a piece of news. [Fr., Ce n'est pas un evenement, c'est une nouvelle.] - on hearing of Napoleon's death [News] Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. - [Love] Methods are the masters of masters. - [Method] Not too much zeal. - [Zeal] Nothing succeeds so well as success. - [Success] She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. - [Friendship] Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter. - [Society] Speech is a faculty given to man to conceal his thoughts. - [Speech] Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.] - attributed to, by Barrere in "Memoirs" [Proverbs : Speech] The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame,--when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. - [Blushes] The love of glory can only create a great hero; the contempt of it creates great man. - [Glory] The reputation of a man is like his shadow,--gigantic when "it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. - [Reputation] The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. - [Flattery] To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. - [Discernment] Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, too much insensibility creates crime. - [Sensibility] Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.] - said to Guizot, in Guizot's "Memoirs pour Servir a l'histoire de nour Temps", vol. I, p. 6 [Life] You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez! - [Cards] It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.] - ascribed to Hundred Days [Beginnings] I know where there is more wisdom that is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers resent and to come--in public opinion. [Fr., Je connais quelqu'un qui a plus d'esprit que Napoleon, que Voltaire, que tous les ministres presents et futurs: c'est l'opinion.] - In the Chamber of Peers [Opinion]
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