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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Gertrude Stein

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves

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