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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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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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word

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