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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity

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