I received money with her, and for the dowry have sold my authority.

_Plautus._

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There is no torture that a woman would not suffer to enhance her beauty.

_Montaigne._

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Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and jumps.

_Balzac._

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The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every-day

moments of existence.

_Leigh Hunt._

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Learn, above all, how to manage women; their thousand “Ahs” and “Ohs,”

so thousand fold, can be cured.

_Goethe._

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All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine bodies, and of souls that

have fine eyes.

_Joubert._

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when

they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our

virtues.

_Balzac._

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She who spat in my face while I was, shall come to kiss my feet when I

am no more.

_Montaigne._

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Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an

opportunity of being generous.

_Anonymous._

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