Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
Arsene HoussayeUp to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.
Arsene HoussayeHope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
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