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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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

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