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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

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