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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason

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