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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity

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

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