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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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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
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 like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
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
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself

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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