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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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"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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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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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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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society

"People happy in love have an air of intensity."
Love

"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
Happiness

"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
Age

"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
Art

"Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion."
Woman

"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."
Literature

"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."
Business

"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
People

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
Pleasure
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