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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
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
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
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic

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