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“Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?”

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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

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“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”

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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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