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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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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World

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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