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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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 see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

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

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