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1 " Death does not reckon by years; it is impartial; some die young, some reach old age. "
― Alexandre Dumas , Ten Years Later (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.2)
2 " It has been truly said, that a woman who has truly loved is always young, and that the bloom of the girl of twenty years ever lies concealed in some secret cloister of the heart." 1 "
3 " Not a ripple could be noticed on the surface of the green waters; the swans themselves, even, reposing with folded wings like ships at anchor, seemed inspirations of the warmth of the air, the freshness of the water, and the silence of the beautiful evening "
4 " A woman's eye can read the face of the man she loves, its every feeling of pride, its every expression of suffering; it might almost be said that Heaven has graciously granted to women, on account of their very weakness, more than it has accorded to other creatures. "
5 " I hope, because hope exists in man, and never abandons him until death. "