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

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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
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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