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

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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock

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