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

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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude

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