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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
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
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
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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