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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

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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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon

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