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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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