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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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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Call Choice Fortune Way World

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