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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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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
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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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