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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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

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