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Jules Michelet

There is no such thing as an old woman. Any woman of any age, if she loves, if she is good, gives a man a sense of the infinite.

Age | Good | Man | Sense | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

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Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Contentment | Wisdom | Woman |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

God | Love | Man | Mistake | Wisdom | Woman | God |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

Man | Wisdom | Wishes | Woman |

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Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love for life is still possible, only one loves differently; it is like love for a woman whom one does not trust.

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Austin O'Malley

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Memory | Wisdom | Woman |

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Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hates a man for being a friend to her.

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Claude A. Ries

A saintly colored woman who was greatly loved in her community was asked how she made and kept so many friends. She replied, "I stop and taste my words before I let them pass my teeth."

Taste | Wisdom | Woman | Words |

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Milton R. Sapirstein

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

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Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

Good | Wisdom | Woman |

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Margaret Sanger, fully Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

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Earle Birney, fully Earle Alfred Birney

Love rests on the preservation of our species; art is our instinctive instrument for the preservation of the individual, of the unique man, woman and child, and the means of evolution of us all into something able and worthy of survival on the living earth.

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Woodrew Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

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Louis K. Anspacher, fully Louis Kannan Anspacher

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

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Dhammapada NULL

The conquest of oneself is better than the conquest of all others.

Better | Conquest |

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