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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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

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