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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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