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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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 call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
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

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