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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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity

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