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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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