Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, …

Gustave Flaubert
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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857, p.56, Harvard University Press
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