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Spring appears and we are once more children.

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

Spring appears and we are once more children.

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