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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road

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