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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason 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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search 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
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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