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Man is a wolf to man.
Boris Pasternak, Richard Pevear, • Doctor Zhivago
D'Artagnan was the youngest of all these men. His heart failed him.
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
"Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it."
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
Linois is only reculing pour mew sauter, as he would say.
Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
Pierre’s insanity consisted in the fact that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people’s merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and, loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.
Larissa Volokhonsky • War and Peace
– Ne vous mariez jamais, Dorian. Les hommes se marient par fatigue, les femmes par curiosité : tous sont désappointés.
Oscar Wilde • Portrait de Dorian Gray, Le
Le diable au corps: amour, érotisme et tragédie dans la bascule de la guerre en 1914
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slovenliness
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
the man whose parental and conjugal love is without limits, and the cup of whose desires, immense as it is, overflows with gratification.