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

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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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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

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