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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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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
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
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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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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