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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion

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