you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
OuidaThere is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.
OuidaIt is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
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