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women believe passion
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
children women thinking
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
mother strong exercise
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
kings husband wife
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
couple husband wife
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.
heart pride wife
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.
people matter france
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
people cracks matter
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
truth real war
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
husband betrayal want
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
husband sentimental deceit
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.
eccentricity
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
men animal gluttony
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
audacity vices innocence
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.