The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acq...
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Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Ar...
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The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exer...
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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule...
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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only t...
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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men...
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psychologist Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protecting divinity, ...
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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of ...
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Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed. Girls brought up [as you were,] in a ver...
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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a su...
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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part...
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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of ente...
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Today brings the sad, glad tidings that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has passed from that darkness which had fallen upon her path through this life, o...
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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to spea...
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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not ...
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A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.
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