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

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time

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

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