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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

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