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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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