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

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality 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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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

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

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