But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.


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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
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That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman ...
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
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In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de...
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The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
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I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
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Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
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Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on...
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