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

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch

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