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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time

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

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