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I see but one rule: to be clear.

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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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague

I see but one rule: to be clear.

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