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

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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small

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