Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.
Alexandre Dumas-filsLove without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
Alexandre Dumas-filsWomen sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
Alexandre Dumas-filsWe must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
Alexandre Dumas-filsThe child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
Alexandre Dumas-filsThe reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.
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