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

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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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

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