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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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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth

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