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If you haven't read Moths by Ouida, but you love 19th century society novels, do so now. Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), for all her sensationalism, is actually quite brilliant.
Anyway, this here is Vere, the main lovely lady in Moths, and Corrèze, the handsome young opera singer she falls in love with.
This book has so many of my favourite lines on human nature, but here is one:
Anyway, this here is Vere, the main lovely lady in Moths, and Corrèze, the handsome young opera singer she falls in love with.
This book has so many of my favourite lines on human nature, but here is one:
"They will try to make you like them. Do not let them succeed. You have truth, innocence, and serenity—treasure them. The women of your day will ridicule you and tell you it is an old-fashioned triad, out of date like the Graces, but do not listen. It is a triad without which no woman is truly beautiful, and without which no man's love for her can be pure."
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