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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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

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