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

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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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

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