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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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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Charm Earth Event Present
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics

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