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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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