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

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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
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
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself

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