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

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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time

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