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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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 French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

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