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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
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

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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