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— Honore de Balzac"Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice."
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The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]
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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
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