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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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

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