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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
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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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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