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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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