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The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
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Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
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Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.
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Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
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Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.