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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity

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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