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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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

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