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

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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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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

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