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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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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
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
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
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

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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