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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
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
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 sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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

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