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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

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