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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

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