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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

Guy de Maupassant

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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
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
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old

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