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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom

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