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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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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 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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World

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