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

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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love

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