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Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui.

— Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others.

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Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue.

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Ah! the spendthrift, love; it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

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To weep is not always to suffer.

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I have never tasted pleasures so true as those I have found in the study of books, in writing, or in music. The days that succeed brilliant entertainments are always melancholy, but those which follow days of study are delicious; we have gained something; we have acquired some new knowledge, and we recall the past day not only without disgust and without regret, but with consummate satisfaction.

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