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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
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
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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