A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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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 a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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