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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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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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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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