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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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