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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World

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