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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
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 French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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

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