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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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