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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
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
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
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

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