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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to ...more

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man...more

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The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical pa...more

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Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?' he asked, placing a ha...more