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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure

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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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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