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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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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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision

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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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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