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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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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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

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