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

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search 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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work

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