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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

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