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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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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset

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

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