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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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