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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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 great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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