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

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World

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