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The less we show our love to a woman,
Or please her less, and neglect our duty,
The more we trap and ruin her surely
In the flattering toils of philandery.

— Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin (1823)

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Why rave ye, babblers, so -- ye lords of popular wonder?

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The less we love a woman the easier 'tis to be liked by her, and thus more surely we undo her amid seductive toils.

A man who's active and incisive
can yet keep nail-care much in mind:
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custom is despot of mankind.

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The clock of doom had struck as fated;
the poet, without a sound,
let fall his pistol on the ground.

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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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