There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
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The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
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