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Military men are the scourges of the world.

Guy de Maupassant

The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live

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