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positive cutting sentimental
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
wide
I am not deep, but I am very wide.
sorrow mazes adultery
If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
gratitude moving winter
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.
clothes vices stains
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
clothes veils gloss
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
role-models envy emulation
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
suffering doubt doe
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
monsters habit combat
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
thrones married slave
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
feelings sentiments
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
dream inspire misfortunes
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
never-quit gowns priests
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
dupes emotion victim
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.