It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
StendhalWhen intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
StendhalThe French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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