Suzanne Curchod Quotes
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Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.
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Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
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You may be more prodigal of time than of money.
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It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
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Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
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One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
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Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
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The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
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Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.
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Love is the pass-key to the heart.
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A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
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The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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Make your best thoughts into action.
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Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.
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Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
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It is never permissible to say, I say.
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Dignity and love do not blend.
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Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
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Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.
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When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
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Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.
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Romance is the poetry of literature.
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One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
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That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
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The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.
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Elegance is exquisite polish.
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For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.
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Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.
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A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
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