The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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