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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
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
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road

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