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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth

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