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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock

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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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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