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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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 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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
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 one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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

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