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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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