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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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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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

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