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

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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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish

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