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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. ↗

— Stendhal

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

— Stendhal

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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. ↗

— Stendhal

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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. ↗

— Stendhal

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

— Stendhal

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. ↗

— Stendhal

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Never make predictions, especially about the future. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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