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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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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Enough History Interest Moral

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