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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

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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
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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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

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