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

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See 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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring

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