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

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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
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
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom

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