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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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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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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
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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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

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