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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange

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