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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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 see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
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
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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

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