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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small

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