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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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

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