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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

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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
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

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