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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.

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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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman

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