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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

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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
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading

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