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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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