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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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

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