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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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

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