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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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