At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
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The house is turned entirely upside down when the hen crows and the cock is silent.
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