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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

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