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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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Ninon de Lenclos

Ninon de Lenclos
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Born: November 10, 1620
Died: October 17, 1705 (aged 84)
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