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

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A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom 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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
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
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love

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