Margaret of Valois quotes
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“Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.”
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“Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.”
-- Margaret of ValoisSource : "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.
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“Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.”
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“Blushes cannot be counterfeited.”
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“There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.”
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“The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.”
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“The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.”
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“No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.”
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“A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.”
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“Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd”
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“It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.”
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“Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.”
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