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“Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times like these if one has any feeling?”
To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.
Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing.
He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.
Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last.
Dieu me la donne, gare á qui la touche!’
“Bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison Condé,”
“Liberty and equality,”
“If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,”
“Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That’s my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is good and noble in you will be lost.
Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.
