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

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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst

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