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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful 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 very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
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
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
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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

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