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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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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
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
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
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude

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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