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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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