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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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