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

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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
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young

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

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