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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman

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