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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

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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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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