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Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.
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We accuse women of insincerity without perceiving that they are more sincere with us than with themselves.
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We should all be perfect if we were neither men nor women.
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Madame X. is a woman of too much wit and cleverness to be ever despised as much as some women less despicable.
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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A witty woman once told me something which may well be the genuine secret of her sex: that in choosing a lover each one of her kind takes more account of how other women regard him than of how she regards him herself.
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Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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When the moon is in the seventh house, And Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets, And love will steer the stars; This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
James Rado
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Born:
April 6, 1741
Died:
April 13, 1794
(aged 53)
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