"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks."
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Source: Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.204, World Classic
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