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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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