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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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 French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
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
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 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

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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