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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

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