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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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 good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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