Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch … - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

Atmosphere, Industry, Occupation, Safeguard, Torches

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We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

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there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

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long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

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