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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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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Opinion Public Small Unity
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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