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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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