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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
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
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 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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

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