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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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 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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock

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