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

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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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 forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness

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