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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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