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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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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