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

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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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion

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