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- The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to…
- A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
- 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…
- Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret…
- A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
- From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
- Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
- My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
- Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes…
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