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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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
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
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
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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