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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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

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

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