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

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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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 great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
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
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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

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

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