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

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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
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
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
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

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

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