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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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
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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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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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