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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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