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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Stendhal

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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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 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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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
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
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road

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