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

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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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
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
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon

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

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