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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock

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