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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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