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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
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

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

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