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

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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
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 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 man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp

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

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