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

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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