“The woman of gallantry, she whose soul is sometimes in her Toy, and sometimes in her eyes.

“The affectionate woman, she whose soul is habitually in the heart, but sometimes also in her Toy.

“The virtuous woman, she whose soul is sometimes in her head, sometimes in her heart, but never anywhere else.

“If the soul fixes in the heart, she forms the characters of sensibility, compassion, truth, generosity. If she quits the heart without returning thither, and retires to the head; then she forms those whom we call hardhearted, ungrateful, deceitful, cruel men.

“The class of those, in whom the soul visits the head merely as a country-house, where its stay is short, is very numerous. It is composed of Petits-Maîtres, coquets, musicians, poets, romancers, courtiers, and all those who are called pretty women. Listen to the reasoning of these entities, and you will instantly discern vagabond souls, which are influenced by the different climes they inhabit.”

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