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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time

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