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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time

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