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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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