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

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

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