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I see but one rule: to be clear.

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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
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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

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