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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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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
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
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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