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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision

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