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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

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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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
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
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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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

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