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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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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

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