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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
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
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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