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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
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
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
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
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
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small

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