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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure 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
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
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
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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

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