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

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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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

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

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