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

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish

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

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