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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.

Guy de Maupassant

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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