The first wonder of every accepted lover is that he should be the accepted lover of such a woman. —What the woman thinks . . . what the woman thinks, probably not even she herself knows. Probably each woman thinks her own thoughts.
To doubt whether one is in love is to prove oneself out of it.
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To impress upon the lover the still-existing necessity of refining gold or painting the lily is out of the question. Yet every woman attempts it.
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If there is one proverb more distasteful than another to a hot-headed lover, it is that half a loaf is better than no bread.
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Children, dogs, and old people are difficult to deceive. Lovers who have to use circumspection should remember this.
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A doubting lover should mark how, and for whom, his woman dresses.