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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking

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