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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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself

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