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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
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
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War

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