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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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