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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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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 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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation 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

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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