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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion

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