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Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it
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Honor� de Balzac
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes
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Honor� de Balzac
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne
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Johann Goethe
A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise
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Francis Bacon
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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