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

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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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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

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

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