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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth

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