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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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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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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
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
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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