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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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 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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

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