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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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