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Our true passions are selfish.

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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
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
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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

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