If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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