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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself

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