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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

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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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

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