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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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 good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision

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