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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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

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