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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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