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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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 see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World

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