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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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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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