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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Guy de Maupassant

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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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