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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

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

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