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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True

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