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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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 wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion 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
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
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
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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

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