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The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
