A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.