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Sun, silence, and happiness.
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Silence
Sun
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oh how television diminishes everything.
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Diminish
Television
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If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
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People
Sometimes
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In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
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Trouble
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Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
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Shields
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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.
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Girl
Aphorism
May
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Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.
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People
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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Kids
Love
Children
Cry
Memorable
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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Kings
Glory
Pleasure
Royalty
Loves
Surely
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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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Able
Children
Waffles
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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Love
Advice
Disease
Fall
Love You
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There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
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Moments
Poverty
Remember
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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
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Misery
Pleasure
Writing
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Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
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Black
Children
Moving
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When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
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Home
Paper
Writing
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Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
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Cake
Dull
Sometimes
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Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.
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Country
Horrible
Wonderful
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
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Family
Being Thankful
Essentials
Life Lesson
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Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
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Reading
Weather
Yesterday
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Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
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Dollars
Effort
United States
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People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
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Cities
People
Potatoes
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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
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Dream
Dinner
Dresses
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And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
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Mind
People
Wings
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English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
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Doctors
Goes On
Human Nature
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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Book
Bothered
Reading
White
Life Good My Life
Read
Fang
One Book
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
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Running
Cutting
Luck
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
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Aristocracy
Lively
Republic
Chicken
Dead
Cut
Head
In Fact
Whose
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The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.
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Cynical
Lord
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Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
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Nature
Garden
Golf
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always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
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Black
Despair
Water
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Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.
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Marriage
Children
Intimate Relationships
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Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.
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Bird
Dog
Needs
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One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.
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Travel
Tourists
Yards
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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
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Girl
May
Widows
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A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.
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Lobster
Typical
Would Be
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Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?
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Cry
Laughing
Making Love
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But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.
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Great Love
Mother
Thinking
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Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
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Dear
Should
Wretched
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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.
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Spring
Summer
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You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.
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Ideas
Long
People
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It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.
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Drawing
Funny Things
People
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The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.
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Believe
People
Unhappy
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One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.
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Joy
Paris
Unhappy
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I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
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Eggs
Hunting
Thinking
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If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.
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Girl
Heaven
Interesting
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The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
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Party
Wings
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the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.
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Running
Food
Baby
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What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.
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Life
Children
Nice
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Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.
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Running
Real
Thinking
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