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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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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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