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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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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
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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