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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom

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