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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
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
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War

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