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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

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