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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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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
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
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
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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