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

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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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 have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself

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

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