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

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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love

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