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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion

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