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Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman we have ceased to love.

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

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Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.

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Love, which is such a little thing, is still the most serious thing in life.

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Let youth dance: tempests of the heart arise after the repose of the limbs.

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Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors.

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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."

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