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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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