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

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True

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