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

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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague

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