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The difference breeds hatred.

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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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

The difference breeds hatred.

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