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The difference breeds hatred.

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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
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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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
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
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
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman

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