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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life

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