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"It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit."

"Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin."

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

"I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life."

"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."

"The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

"Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign."

"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads."

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign."

"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."

"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

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