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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife

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