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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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 you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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