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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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Race, Musical, Events

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

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Husband, Revenge, Blow

Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.140, Tyché

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

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Thinking, Skills, Soldier

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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Real, Thinking, Said

Stendhal (2012). “The Red and the Black”, p.224, Courier Corporation

Far less envy in America than in France.

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America, Envy, France

"On Love".

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

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Powerful, Grief, Men

Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.154, Tyché

Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.

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Lying, Men, Feet

Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.367, Tyché