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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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