Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, "One sees that love has dwelt there."

— Pierre-Édouard Lémontey A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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