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Far less envy in America than in France.

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

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