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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion

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