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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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