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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
Ignorance
"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character
"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."
Happiness
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship
"Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breastTo pierce another."
Power
"Consequences are unpitying."
Consequence
"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
Wisdom
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."
Behavior
"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."
Mythology
"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
Fear
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