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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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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