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Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.
– Honor de Balzac

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  3. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. – Honor de Balzac
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  5. Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams. – Honor de Balzac
  6. Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. – Honor de Balzac
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  9. Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. – Honor de Balzac
  10. Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. – Honor de Balzac
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  25. Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. – Lyman Abbott
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  28. Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man – himself so true, That no false does he brew. – Munindra Misra
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  33. Hair is hair. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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  35. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,…,and he had very red hair. – JD Salinger
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  38. you cut me deep bitch,cut me like surgery. – Kanye West
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