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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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 man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral

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