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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner

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