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

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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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