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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search 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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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 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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
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
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

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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