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

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
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
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
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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

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

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