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

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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
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch

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