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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification

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