“ Paris is a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. ”
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“ Paris is a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. ”
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“ Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. ”
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“ Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you. ”
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“ Most people who put together collections of verse or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries of oysters: they begin by choosing eh best and end by eating everything. ”
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“ Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ”
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“ Society... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat… ”
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“ Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you. ”
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“ In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. ”
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“ Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is. ”
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“ Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ”
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“ Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. ”
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“ Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ”
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“ Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ”
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“ In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. ”
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“ In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. ”
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“ Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ”
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“ Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you. ”
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“ Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. ”
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“ Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. ”
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“ The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. ”
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“ Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. ”
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“ In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. ”
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“ Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. ”
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“ All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. ”
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