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Child of a Century

CHAPTER V
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Love does not come to us every day.
"Do not tear your hair and stab yourself because you have a rival.

You say that your mistress deceives you for another; it is your pride that suffers; but change the words, say that it is for you that she deceives him, and behold, you are happy! "Do not make a rule of conduct, and do not say that you wish to be loved exclusively, for in saying that, as you are a man and inconstant yourself, you are forced to add tacitly: 'As far as possible.' "Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

The Spaniards, first among women, love faithfully; their hearts are sincere and violent, but they wear a dagger just above them.

Italian women are lascivious.

The English are exalted and melancholy, cold and unnatural.
The German women are tender and sweet, but colorless and monotonous.


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