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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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