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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

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

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