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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

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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