Madeleine de Scudery quotes
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“Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
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“Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.”
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“The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.”
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“Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.”
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“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
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“The only rose without thorns is friendship.”
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“Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.”
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“A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.”
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“It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.”
-- Madeleine de Scudery
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“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : "Did Lolo Jones Offer Up Too Much Information?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2012.
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“Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
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