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

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing

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

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