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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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