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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
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
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman

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