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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time

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