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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil

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