It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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