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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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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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