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La Rochefoucauld 277: Women often think they love when they do not love.
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Women often think they love when they do not love. The business of a love affair, the emotion of mind that sentiment induces, the natural bias towards the pleasure of being loved, the difficulty of refusing, persuades them that they have real passion when they have but flirtation. ["And if in fact she takes a {"}Grande Passion{"}, It is a very serious thing indeed: Nine times in ten 'tis but caprice or fashion, Coquetry, or a wish to take the lead, The pride of a mere child with a new sash on. Or wish to make a rival's bosom bleed: But the {Tenth} instance will be a tornado, For there's no saying what they will or may do." {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, canto xii. stanza 77.]
- same section → La Rochefoucauld 329: We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method.
- same section → La Rochefoucauld 012: Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearances of piety ...
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