"Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions." — Jules Michelet

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• Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman
• Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty. — Jean de la Bruyere
• How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss… — William Shakespeare
• Idleness induces caprice. — James Russell Lowell
• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run… — Samuel Smiles
• The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
• We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the… — William Hazlitt
• We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full… — Jean de la Bruyere
• Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke… — Charlotte Bronte
• It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they… — James Madison
• Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

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