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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
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
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
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

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