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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

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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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish

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