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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
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

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