Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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