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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide

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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