_Lessing._
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Woman is the organ of the devil.
_De Varennes._
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Women are a breed the like of which neither sea nor earth produces
anything; he who is always with them knows them best.
_Euripides._
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Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in
their arms.
_De Finod._
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Marriage has its unknown great men as war has its Napoleons, poetry its
Cheniers, and philosophy its Descartes.
_Balzac._
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Vanity ruins more women than love.
_Du Deffand._
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Extremes in everything is a characteristic of woman.
_De Goncourt._
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One loves more the first time, better the second.
_Rochepedre._
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Of all religions love is the most deceptive.
_Paleologue._
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The Indian axiom “Do not strike even with a flower a woman guilty of a
hundred crimes” is my rule of conduct.
_Balzac._
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To be loved as in books is a dream.
_Bourget._
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The cruellest revenge of a woman is often to remain faithful to a man.
_Bossuet._
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Women, cats and birds are the creatures that waste most time on their
toilets.
_Nodier._
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Female goodness seldom keeps its ground against laughter, flattery, or
fashion.
_Johnson._
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