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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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 very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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

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