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I see but one rule: to be clear.

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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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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

I see but one rule: to be clear.

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