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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness

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