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Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

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Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.

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He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.

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A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.

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A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau
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Born: November 9, 1832
Died: September 28, 1873 (aged 40)
Bio: Émile Gaboriau was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction.
Known for:
  1. Monsieur Lecoq (1868)
  2. L'Affaire Lerouge (1866)
  3. The Mystery of Orcival (1867)
  4. The Count's Millions
  5. The widow Lerouge (1873)

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