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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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

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