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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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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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

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