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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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

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