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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.)
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Woman is like a book, which, good or bad, must at first please us by the frontispiece.
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