"Genius is always more suggestive than expressive."
"A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem."
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Source: Abel Stevens, John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1880). “Madame de Staël, a study of her life and times: the first revolution and the first empire”
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