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

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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place

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