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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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