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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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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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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

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