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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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