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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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

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

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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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