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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road

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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