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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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