“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”
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“Look for the woman!”
Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Les Mohicans de Paris, http://www.archive.org/details/lesmohicansdepa02dumagoog, 2009-08-07, I, 1871, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 232]
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1854 novel)
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Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: «Cherchez la femme!»
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Théâtre complet, http://www.archive.org/details/thtrecomplet24dumauoft, 2009-08-07, XXIV, 1889, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 103], translation from The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations II.iii
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