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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

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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 carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

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