Firmness is great; persistency is greater. - Ninon de L'Enclos

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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still. . . nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

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Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

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Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

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Old age is women's hell.

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