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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity

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