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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
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

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