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Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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