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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity

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