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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

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