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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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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