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If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. - Charles Caleb Colton There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. - Charles Caleb Colton Audacity as against modesty will win the battle over most men. - Dorothee DeLuzy Intrigue is a court distemper. - Dorothee DeLuzy As love increases, prudence diminishes. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld There are many women who never have had one intrigue; but there are few who have had only one. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Every woman is at heart a rake. - Alexander Pope When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
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