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

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
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

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

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