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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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 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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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

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