Part 7

_Lallemand._

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To continue love in marriage is a science.

_Mme. Reyband._

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The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry.

_Jouy._

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It is not love that ruins us; it is the way we make it.

_Bussy-Rabutin._

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Marriage in our days?—I would almost say that it is a rape by contract.

_Michelet._

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A coquette often loses her reputation while she possesses her virtue.

_Spectator._

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A lover is a man who endeavours to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be: this is the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous.

_Chamfort._

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Those who always speak well of women do not know them enough; those who always speak ill of them do not know them at all.

_Pigault-Lebrun._

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Possession is the touchstone of love.

_Panage._

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Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes from her.

_Méré._

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It is a terrible thing to be obliged to love by contract.

_Bussy-Rabutin._

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Our strong passions break into a thousand purposes; women have one.

_Lord Beaconsfield._

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Women alone can organise a drawing-room: man succeeds sometimes in a library.

_Lord Beaconsfield._

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Male firmness is very often obstinacy. Women have always something better, worth all qualities. They have tact.

_Lord Beaconsfield._

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The woman who is talked about is generally virtuous, and she is only abused because she devotes to _one_ the charms which all wish to enjoy.

_Lord Beaconsfield._

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There is no mortification, however keen, no misery, however desperate, which the spirit of woman cannot in some degree lighten or alleviate.

_Lord Beaconsfield._

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The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

_Lord Beaconsfield._

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Where there are crowned heads there are always some charming women.

_Lord Beaconsfield._

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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

_Fielding._

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It is only a woman that can make a man become the parody of himself.

_French Proverb._

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There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth.

_Boufflers._

The End

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