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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love

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