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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
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking

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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