It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

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

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

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one...

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...