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

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon

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