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

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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification

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