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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman

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