The privation which I had imposed upon myself, and of which she had pretended to approve, is one of those… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

The privation which I had imposed upon myself, and of which she had pretended to approve, is one of those things which women never pardon, however they pretend to take it; not so much for the sake of that of which they are themselves deprived, as by reason of the feeling of indifference which they consider it implies.

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