A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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