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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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