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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World

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