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Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. – François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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