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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World

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