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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.

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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.

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