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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life

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

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