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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
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
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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

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