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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
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
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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