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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word

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