"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.“
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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