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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
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
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

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