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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 very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

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

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