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

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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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