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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

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