“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.”
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
