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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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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
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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