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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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