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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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 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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic

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