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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

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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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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

I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

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