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Far less envy in America than in France.

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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself

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