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

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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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

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