Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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  A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other wa

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  A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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  When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they giv

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  Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we lov

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  The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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  I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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