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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

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