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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Madame de Stael

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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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Before Brought Forward Found Past President Presumptuously Some
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Alike Among Between Differ Lie Recognize Resemblamnce Thing Wit
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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Face Fly Know Man Must Opinion Submit Woman
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Cease Love No One One Liner Ourselves
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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From Men Selfishness Weak Women
The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Abuse Check Must Strengthen Restrain
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Clear Conscience Delicate Easy Impossible Mistake Stifie Voice
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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Increase Mam Moral Necessity Power Progress Scientific
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Between Choose Must Norodom One Suffer
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Between Connection Existence Fault Misfortune Mystery
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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Desire Live Man Woman
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Age Day Decline First Immortal Life Nobel Old
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Both Candor Genius Innocence Nobel Power Quality
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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Always Human Make Mind Progress Spiral
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Among Art Choose Politeness Thought
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Duty Man Nobbiest Occupation Publication Search Truth
When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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One Pray Self Source Strength When
Speech happens to not be his language.
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Be Happen Language Speech
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Beginning Destroy End Eternity Fear Love Memory Out Sense Sipe Symbol Time
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Hymn Life Religious Struggle
Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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Action Feeling Greatest Happiness Transform
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Except Heart Improbable Matter Nothing True
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Grow Remembrance Service Sow Sweet
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Indulgent Make One Totally Understand Very
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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Dog Like Man More See

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