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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
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 call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth

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