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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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

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