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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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