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“The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Age Quotes
#Demand Quotes
#Noise Quotes
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“In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Book Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Foxes Quotes
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“Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Ambition Quotes
#Eagles Quotes
#Rocks Quotes
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“That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Retirement Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Shadow Quotes
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“A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Heart Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Chivalry Quotes
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“Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Vanity Quotes
#Tree Quotes
#Proud Quotes
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“Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.”
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Suzanne Curchod
Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.89, Belford Bros.
#Perseverance Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Faults Quotes
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“Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Order Quotes
#House Quotes
#Opera Quotes
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“Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Obligation Quotes
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“For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Years Quotes
#People Quotes
#Quality Quotes
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“The more heart, the more sorrow.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Heart Quotes
#Sorrow Quotes
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“One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Giving Quotes
#Silence Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
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“The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Thinking Quotes
#Broken Quotes
#Doubt Quotes
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“It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Want Quotes
#Wit Quotes
#Shows Quotes
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“You may be more prodigal of time than of money.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Time Quotes
#May Quotes
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“Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Sympathy Quotes
#Sorrow Quotes
#Casts Quotes
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“A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Writing Quotes
#Rejection Quotes
#Style Quotes
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“It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Bears Quotes
#Virtue Quotes
#Calamity Quotes
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“Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Love Quotes
#Love Is Quotes
#Graves Quotes
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“Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Probity Quotes
#Oath Quotes
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“Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Hands Quotes
#Agents Quotes
#Fiction Quotes
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“Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Guilt Quotes
#Twins Quotes
#Twin Sister Quotes
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“Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Atmosphere Quotes
#Gallantry Quotes
#Court Quotes
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“Elegance is exquisite polish.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Elegance Quotes
#Polish Quotes
#Exquisite Quotes
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“Dignity and love do not blend.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#And Love Quotes
#Dignity Quotes
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“One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Character Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Speak Quotes
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“Make your best thoughts into action.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Action Quotes
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“Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Wise Quotes
#Wish Quotes
#Becoming Quotes
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“Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Long Quotes
#Together Quotes
#Innocence Quotes
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“Love is the pass-key to the heart.”
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Suzanne Curchod
#Love Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Keys Quotes
