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Far less envy in America than in France.

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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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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 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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small

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