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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
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
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves

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