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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
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
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World

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