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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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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
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True

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