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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity

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