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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

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