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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

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