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

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
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 novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset

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