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Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne on Women

1734–1806 France

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A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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