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The difference breeds hatred.

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity

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