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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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

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