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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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