“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.