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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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