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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.

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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

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