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

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth

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