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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

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