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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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