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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.

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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.

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