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A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in her conduct.

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For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two.

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A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse with a woman, who is at liberty to refuse ; but when he falls ill, or when his mistress is with child, she is discarded, and he believes in God.

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A Beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature: we find in her all the merits of both sexes.

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A man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman he could love.

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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

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Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère
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Born: August 16, 1645
Died: May 11, 1696 (aged 50)
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