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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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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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road

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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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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