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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter

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