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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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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

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