When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
