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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
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
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

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