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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
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
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
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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

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