These witty paradoxes might be
dangerous for second-rate minds, but they have no real influence on
the character of great men."
Charles Mignon pressed La Briere's hand.
"That adaptability, however, leads a man to excuse himself in his own
eyes for actions that are diametrically opposed to each other; above
all, in politics."
"Ah, mademoiselle," Canalis was at this moment saying, in a caressing
voice, replying to a roguish remark of Modeste, "do not think that a
multiplicity of emotions can in any way lessen the strength of
feelings. Poets, even more than other men, must needs love with
constancy and faith. You must not be jealous of what is called the
Muse. Happy is the wife of a man whose days are occupied. If you heard
the complaints of women who have to endure the burden of an idle
husband, either a man without duties, or one so rich as to have
nothing to do, you would know that the highest happiness of a Parisian
wife is freedom,--the right to rule in her own home. Now we writers
and men of functions and occupations, we leave the sceptre to our
wives; we cannot descend to the tyranny of little minds; we have
something better to do.
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