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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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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 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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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