One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

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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.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

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...

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.

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...

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

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

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

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the...

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the...

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.

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

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

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...