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Salonnire Inspirational Quotes (698)

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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
Madame de Stael
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To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?
Natalie Clifford Barney
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The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
George Sand
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
Madame de Stael
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
Gertrude Stein
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There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.
Margaret of Valois
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Might I be the one I am looking for?
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Sophie Swetchine
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Sophie Swetchine
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Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.
Elizabeth Montagu
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sophie Swetchine
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A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
Gertrude Stein
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
Gertrude Stein
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Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
Louise Colet
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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
Gertrude Stein
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No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
George Sand
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
Sophie Swetchine
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I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
Gertrude Stein
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
Madame de Stael
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