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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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