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

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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
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

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