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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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