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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst

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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