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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom

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