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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

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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
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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

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