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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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

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