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There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

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It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

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It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

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Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

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When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

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Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 29th, 1882

Died: January 31st, 1944

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