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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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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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please

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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