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All bow to virtue and then walk away. - [Virtue] Experience is a keen knife that hurts while it extracts the cataract that blinds. - [Experience] Grief counts the seconds; happiness forgets the hours. - [Time] Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers. - [Politeness] Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four-and-twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. - [Courtship] Self-love was born before love. - [Self-love] Simplicity is a captivating grace in woman, as rare as it is attractive. - [Simplicity] The maiden's blush lights the volcano in the lover's heart. - [Blandishment] There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love." - [Wedlock] Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the laws of nature. - [Nature] Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points. - [Rivalry]
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