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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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