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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves

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