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

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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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
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
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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