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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst

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