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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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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
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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 wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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