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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

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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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
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
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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

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