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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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