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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
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
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics

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