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It is not easy to be a widow: one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to even feign its ignorance.

— Delphine de Girardin Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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The minds whose mission is to destroy prejudices are precisely those who have the most prejudices and profess them most blindly.

When you want to drain the marsh, you don't consult the frogs.

To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, to be the idol of your idol! ... It is too much, it exceeds human happiness, it is stealing fire from heaven!

La Croix de Berny (1855)

Business is other people's money.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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