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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

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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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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