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If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
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Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
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The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.
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A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her.
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A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment.
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A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
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A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
November 10, 1620
Died:
October 17, 1705
(aged 84)
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