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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon

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