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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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 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 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
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague

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