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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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