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La Rochefoucauld 241: Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise i...
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Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise it, some being restrained by fear, others by sense. ["By nature woman is a flirt, but her flirting changes both in the mode and object according to her opinions."-- Rousseau, Emile.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_241
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