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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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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Enough History Interest Moral
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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