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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision

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

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