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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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

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