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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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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
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
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
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing

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