(An illicit love beautifies and consecrates nothing:

A Maud leaves the daisies rosy; not so Faustine.)

Many a woman has given her heart to one lover and herself to another.
The first is always won; the second is sometimes extorted. Yet,

It is wonderful how a woman will contrive to make all her lovers believe
they are winners.

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It often gives a lady a pleasure to give her lover a pang.

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Not many but have tasted the bitterness of the conflict between the
desire of the flesh and the resentment of the spirit. Explain these terms
who may.

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To attempt by erring to cure an erring lover, is to administer, not an
antidote, but an adjuvant. It works poison in the blood.
When (and if) in a tortuous love, a man arrives at a 'Don't give a damn'
stage, he is not to be classed with the animals known as docile. And as
to a woman. . . . . . . but polite language has its limits.

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