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

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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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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 man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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 like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic

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