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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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