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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
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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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock

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